In the Chandler Home with Matt Chandler

The Family Discipleship Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family

5.0 • 597 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On the second episode of the Family Discipleship Podcast the hosts (Adam Griffin, Cassie Bryant, and Chelsea Griffin) talk with their friend and special guest Matt Chandler. Matt is the Lead Pastor of The Village Church in Flower Mound Texas and the author of several books. To learn more about Matt or The Village Church you can follow him on instagram @mattchandler74 and find his church at thevillagechurch.net. Questions we asked Matt in this episode:

Who is “Matt Chandler the father and husband”?
Who were some of the influences who helped shape your ideas of spiritual leadership in the home?
What are some of your favorite memories of spiritual conversations with your kids?
What has “not gone according to plan” in the Chandler home when it comes to spiritual leadership?
What encouragement do you have for the parents listening who are feeling anxious and overwhelmed with the tasks of leading their home?
Can you tell us about 13th birthdays in your household? What do you do for those rites of passage and where did you come up with that?
Was it hard for your kids to grow up “Chandler’s kids” at your church? How do you and your wife navigate that and how do you help them not despise the church for what it demands of you?
In an increasingly secular culture what makes family discipleship so important right now?
What role has the church played in Chandler family discipleship?
What scriptures come to mind for you in how you lead your home?
How can we join you in praying for your family?

Some of our favorite quotes from Matt Chandler in this episode:

If you are going to parent well, you have to understand that there is grace for you. You are not going to nail it and grace frees you up from having to pretend that you are more than human.
Show me parents who don’t ask for forgiveness from their kids and I’ll show you parents who don’t understand the gospel.
Parents, you can do this. You don’t need a seminary degree. You don’t need to be able to speak Greek and Hebrew. You can do it. This isn’t as hard as you think it is.
If we won’t do what’s right there in front of us then the world is going to do it for us. We are gonna wake up and we are not going to recognize or understand how this person who grew up in our house could believe what they believe or embrace what they embrace.
It’s of utmost importance that parents realize how powerful they are in the lives of their children and not buy the lie that we shouldn’t tell them what to believe. Somebody’s gonna tell them what to believe. I want to be the one to do it.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Family Discipleship podcast, a podcast of Training the Church.
0:13.2	This is Adam Griffin, and before I introduce you to our distinguished guests, let me first introduce my two lovely co-hosts.
0:19.8	First, one of the OGs of the Village Church,
0:23.3	Cassie Bryant. How you doing today, Cassie? I'm so great. If you want to know how to make a Wednesday
0:28.2	feel like a Monday, spill your coffee, you know, all over your dress. That's awesome. And of course,
0:35.0	the mother of all my children is with us today. Miss Chelsea Lane Griffin, how you doing today, Chelsea?
0:39.3	I'm off the charts. First day of school.
0:42.2	Yeah.
0:42.4	You got to do leaks on light.
0:43.6	That's awesome.
0:44.4	We have the distinct honor to have with us on today's episode, the man himself, Mr. Pastor Matthew Chandler.
0:51.5	Ladies and gentlemen, Matt Chandler.
0:53.8	Thank you. Mr. Pastor is what a lot of the small children here call me. So Mr. Pastor,
0:59.9	I'll take it. That's awesome. Well, Matt, we're all huge fans of Matt and good friends with Matt,
1:05.7	but I need to tell you a little secret that the Griffin family's had for a long time. You need to
1:09.4	know this, Matt, that my wife has a secret selfie collection of Matt Chandler, where she takes pictures of you and with you, and she's been working on this for a while. And I don't know, I hope you're not aware of this, but we'll have you like, oh, you don't even see us. We're over your shoulder taking, I just want to know, what's your response to that? Are we the first? I am. Well, I mean, I don't know, probably.
1:29.3	I wouldn't think that you're the first to kind of snap a secret selfie, but that there's a collection of them. I have to believe not only are you the first, but more than likely the only. That's awesome. That can't be true. Because Matt, I was... Why would you say that can't be true?
1:45.3	Well, I started going to the village when I was like 23, way before I met Adam.
1:50.2	The village and your preaching was very formative in my faith, loved it.
1:55.4	And so then, you know, by marrying Adam and getting, you know, to be at like village Christmas parties and stuff, you know, one time you were just right behind me, we're back to back. And I have like pictures of the back of your head just because I'm like, hey, here I am. I'm here with Matt Chandler. So why wouldn't you just ask me to take a picture with you? I'm right there. That's not funny. Yeah, that's not interesting. That is true. That's not as fun. Yeah, the pictures look stalker-ish and that's what I like about it. But one time I did and I got a picture with you at a fundraiser. But yeah, the way you look so willing, it looks boring, yeah.
2:35.3	I'm sorry.
2:36.3	We'll get a really awkward one next time I see you.
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